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ter ms of the watchman two dollars in advance and two dollars and fifty cents nt the end t'l the year no subscription received for a less tame than one year unless paid for in advance no subscription discontinued but at the option ot tlie ;-â€¢> tors until all arrearages are paid terms of advertising i ... d tllar per square for the first insertion and twenty fori ach continuance a and court orders will be charged j pc her than the above rates . tion of 33 i per cent will be maue to t.iose . . idvertisc by the year ., - . . , , vi advertise nts will he continued mtil forbid and j for acconlingly.unless ordered for a certain num ber of times _ , i ....,.._ addressed to the editors must come post , aid i ' qsnre atti ntion the law of kindness a volume entitled illustrations ofthe law of kindness by thc kev 7 w montgomery has been published at alba ny in the state of new york it is as a literary work of little pretension but it presents in one focus a very considerable number of anecdotes exemplifying the su periority ofthe benevolent over the coer cive and severe principle as a means of effecting good vr,tl amongst our fellow en atures ; and such reasoning as the book contains is animated by all the earnest ness of an amiable and trusting nature the author classes his facts into chapters one of the first of which presents scriptur al instances such as that of david's con duct towards saul in the cave another presents a brief account of the benevolent proceedings of howard oberlin fenelon c.,showing how the law of kindness traded in their lives to the most brilliant result in a chapter on lie disarming force of kindness we have a story that never can ] io often told it is well known that quakers or friends have adopted the non-resistance principle or the law over come evil with good the founder of philadelphia william penn was com pletely armed with the spirit of this prin ciple when he visited this country he came without cannon or sword and with ; a determination to meet the indians wilh truth and kindness lie bought their j land and paid them he made a treaty ihem and observed it : and he always treated them as men as a specimen of the manner in which he met the indians thv tollowing instance is very striking â€” ihere were some fertile and excellent lands which in 10 b penn ascertained were excluded irom the first purchase and as he was very desirous of obtaining j them he made the proposal to lhe indians that lie woidd buy those lands if they were willing they returned for answer that they had no desire to sell the spot where their lather's bones were laid but o please iheir father onas as they nam ed penn they said that he should have some of the lands this being decided they concluded the bargain that penn might have as much land as a youngman could travel round in one day beginning at the great cosquanco now kensington in ii i ding at the great river kallapingo j now bristol ; and as an equivalent ihey â– 1 1 ceive a certain amount of eng | li-n â€¢- a though this plan ofmeasur lii land was of their own selection j yet they were greatly dissatisfied with it after it had been tried ; for the your " englishman chosen to walk off thc trad of land walked so i'ast and far as greatly to astonish and mortify them the gov ernor observed this dissatisfaction and asked thc cause " the walker cheated is said the indians ' ah how can it be said penn did you not ohoose yourselves tohave the land measured in this way .'" true replied the indians but white bro ther make a big walk some of penn's commisioncrs waxing warm said the bar gain was i fair one and insisted that the indians ought to abide by it and if not should be compelled to il ' compelled !* exclaimed penn ; ' how can you compel them without bloodshed don't you sec this looks to murder ?' then turning will abenignanl smile to the indians he said well brothers if you have given us too much lor the goods lirst agreed on how much more will satisfy you v this pro posal gratified them ; and ihey mentioned the quantity of cloth and the number of fish-hooks with which they would be sat isfied these were cheerfully given and he indians shaking hands with penn went away smiling alter they were gone the governor looking round on his friends ex claimed ' ( ) how sweet and cheap a thing is charitj ! some of you spoke just now fll compelling these poor creatures tostick to their bargain that is in plain english tolighl and kill them aud all about a lit wpit ce of it ml 7 " for this kind conduct manifested in ; ill his actions to ihe indians he was no bly rewarded the untamed savage of the forest became the warm iriend of the whitc si ranger towards penn and his fol lowers they buried the war-hatchet and n r evinced the strongest respect for km and when the colony of pennsyl vania was pressed for provisions and none cÂ°uld 1 obtained from other settlements hi(-!i search arose from the increas ln number of inhabitants having no time l taise the necessary l'ood the indians c'll','i'luiiy came forward and assisted the polony by the fruits of their labors in hunt s this kindness they practised with p^asure because they considered it an to their good father onas j111 his friends and though penn has ! a dead yel he is not forgotten by men ior many ofthe indians pos s a knowledge of his peaceable dispo sition and speak of him with a toneÂ»and pellng verydift'erenl from what they man ksi when speaking of those whites who f;i with words of treachery on theirlips jkpgs of fire-water in their hands in their actions i ihe anecdote comes before us with par r wee at the present moment when j ew /-' land is tottering as a settlement â€¢ i's-nce of the english following the carolina watchman bruner & james ) ' > " keep a check upon all your editors 4 proprietors \ is safe '__ i $ m series rulers do this and liberty < t_^Â«Â«_v_n geril harrison ( xl m ber 81 of volume i ===== salisbury n c september 21 1844 = j a different principle with the natives â€” how strange does it sound to hear men j talking with ridicule of philanthropic pol i icy as something unfitted for human na ' turc when lhe fact is glaring that it is the contrary policy that does not succeed ; its invariahlc consequences heing lhe de | struction and obstruction of all that i.s i good the true visionaries in this case i are those who dream that a large barba | rian force is to be made agreeable in one's neighborhood by raising in it the spirit of ; blind revenge the true practical man j is he who acts justly and kindly by his un ! tutored neighbors expecting they will : thereby be kept on friendly terms with i him in a chapter on insanity thc effect of the mild system of treatment now prac tised in comparison with thc former cru el methods is illustrated by numerous ex i amples collected from different sources the next action displays thc effect of kind ness as an element in the means of refor ming criminals we pass from these as projects that have already been treated in our paper and come to an anecdote in which the efficacy of the gentler princi ple in circumsiances where the other could not have availed is powerfully evinced it appeared originally in de l'emartine's translation of ' a residence among the arabs of the greal desert ' in the tribe cf nedge there was a mare of great re putation for beauty and swiftness which a member of another tribe named dahcr ' vehemently desired to possess having failed to obtain her by offering all he was worth he proceeded to effect his object by stratagem he disguised himself like a lame beggar and waited by the side ofa road knowing that nabee the owner of thc mare would soon pass as soon as nabee appeared daher cried in a feeble voice 1 am a poor stranger for three days i have been unable to stir from this lo get food ; help nit and god will reward you nabee offered to carry him home ; but daher said ' i am not able to raise ; i have not strength nabee then gener ; ously dismounted brought his mare near and helped the beggar to mount her the moment he was mounted daher touched her with his heel and started saying ' it is i daher who have got her and am carrying her oil nabee called upon him to sto which daher did nabee then said ' thou hast my mare ; since it plea ses god 1 wish thee success but i eon jure thee tell no one how thou hast obtain ed her ' why not v said daher Â« be cause seme one really ill might remain without aid you would be the cause why no one would perform an act of charity more from the fear of being duped as 1 have been this discriminating kind ness subdued daher he immediately dis mounted and returned the mare to nabee | and when they parted they parted sworn j friends here mr montgomery remarks let i signal act of revenge a cold iin ! feeling instance of retaliation be known in our communities and it excites horror and even the deepest tones of indignation on the contrary let a broad act of bene volence a noble and dignified instance of the forgiveness of enemies be exhibit ed and it is at once admired and com mended in the warmest terms 8o true j it is that the human heart dislikes the ! principle hate the enemies and approves i the practice ofthe law " love your ene mics nothing we think could more power ' fully enforce this doctrine than the effect of such anecdotes as the following which we fully believe could not be read to the i most debased ofour species without rais ! ' ing such emotions as to form an ample j proof of the superiority of generous over i : revengeful feelings the brothers cher j ible ofthe novelist are as is well known j scarcely overcharged portraits of two real j english merchants one of whom wc re | j gret to know is no more of these men ! the following story was originally told in ! a manchester paper " the elder brother ! of this house of merchant princes amply revenged himself upon a libeller who had , made himself merry with the peculiarities of the amiable fraternity this man pub lished u pamphlet in which one of the brothers i was designated as billy j button and represented as talking large ly of their foreign trade having travel lers wli,o regularly visited chowbent bul lock smithly and other foreign parts â€” some " kind friend had told w of this pamphlet and y had said that the man would live to repent of its publication â€” this saying was kindly conveyed to the libeller who said that he should take care never to be in their debt but the man of business does not always know who shall be his creditor the author of the pamphlet became bankrupt and the bro thers held an acceptance of his which had been endorsed by the drawer who had al so become bankrupt the wantonly-li belled men had thus become creditors of the libeller they now had it in their * a most respecta'ok xew zealand settler thus writes ! to a iriend in edinburgh i:i a letter which we have seen ; " the natives are a fine intelligent race and are rapid ly becoming civilized wars have almost ceased and cannibalism is becomining very rare and is only prac tised by two tribes the late unfortunate massacre of captain wakefield and six gentlemen of which you may have heard entirely originated in an unjust aggression on the natives and their retaliation ; and hornhle as it ' wns the sufferers only met with their deserts we pre sume it is not here meant that captain wakefield or the : other sufferers were specially guilty but that the conduct ' of the english was generally speaking such ns to make | the loss on that side a natural coneequence ot their error power to make him repent of his audaci ty he could not obtain his certificate without their signature and without it he could not enter into business again he had obtained the number of signatures re quired by the bankrupt laws except one " it seemed folly to hope that the firm of brothers would supply the deficiency what ! they who had cruelly been made the laughing-stock of thc public forget the wrong and favor the wrong-doer ! he despaired ; but the claims of a wife and children forced him at least to make the application humbled by misery he pre sented himself at the counting room ofthe wronged w was there alone and his first words to the delinquent were ' shut the door sir !' slernly uttered the door was shut and the libeller stood trembling before the libelled he told his tale and produced his certificate which was in stantly clutched by the injured merchant ' you wrote a pamphet against us once exclaimed w this supplicant expected to sec his parchment thrown into the fire ; but this was not its destination w took a pen and writing something on the doc ument handed it back to thc bankrupt â€” he poor wretch expected to see there " rogue scroundrel libeller inscribed ; but there was in fair round characters the signature of the firm ! " we make it a j rule said w " never to refuse signing the certificate of an honest tradesman ' and we have never heard that you were anything else the tear started into the j poor man's eye " ah said w " my saying was true i i said you would live to repent writing j that pamphlet i did not mean it as a â– threat ; i only meant that some day you j would know us better and would repent you had tried to injure us i see you re pent it now " i do i do said the grate ful man " well well my dear leilow j said w " you know us now how do ; you get on .' what are you going to do ?" j the poor man stated that he had friends j who could assist him when his certificate \ was obtained " but how are you oft in \ the meantime and the answer was j that having given up every thing to his creditors he had been compelled to stint his family of even the common necessa j lies that he might be enabled to pay the \ cost ofhis certificate " my dear fellow , said w this will never do â€” your fami 1 ly must not suffer be kind enough to j take i his ten pound note to your wife from j me there there my dear fellow â€” nay don't cry â€” it will be all well with you yet , keep up your spirits set to work like a | man and you will raise your head yet the overpowered man endeavored in vain to express his thanks â€” the swelling in his throat forbade words ; he put his handker chief to his face and went out of the door crying like a child " i am almost convinced says the au thor " that there never yet was an in stance in which kindness has been fairly exercised but that it has subdued tbe en mity opposed to it its first effort may not succeed any more than one shower of rain can reclaim the burning desert but let it repeatedly shed the dew of its holy influence upon the revengeful soul and it will soon become beautiful with every j lower of tenderness let any person put thc question to his soul whether under any circumstances he can deliberately re sist continued kindness anda voice of affection will answer that good is omnip otent in overcoming evil if the angry and revengeful person would only govern his passions and light the lamp of affec tion in his heart that it might stream out in his features and actions he would soon discover a wide difference in his commu nion without with the world the gentle would no longer avoid him ; friends would not approach him with a frown ; the weak would no longer meet him with fear ; he would find that his kindness won all by its kindness won all by its smile giving them confidence and securing their friend ship dr duncan of ohio and his brother democrats of the south thc democrats have circulated through this county and elsewhere in the state far and wide a speech delivered by one duncan a sort of notorious character and a representative from ohio his speech contains several pictures and is so obscene and abusive that many democrats we learn when it is thrust upon them spurn it from them with disgust now in order that the people of this county may know what are the true feelings and opinions of this duncan in regard to the south and its institutions let them read the follow in0 extract from a letter of his dated " montgomery hamilton county ohio sept 15 1838 and addressed to james ludlow and eighteen others let it be read and let the reader form his own opin ion of the man from whose abuse of the whigs the voters of this county are asked to form an opinion of that party let our democratic friends especially those who have aided in circulating the speech re ferred lo put on their spectacles and read the denunciations heaped upon them and upon slaveholders in general by this great political favorite of theirs danville re porter " there is says dr duncan no mar living who is more deadly hostile to slave â€¢ ry than i am my feelings my education the circumstances that have surrounded me through life together with my princi ples of what i believe to constitute the natu ral political rights of man all conspire to make me ablwr it as one of the greatest evils that exists on the face of the earth : yes greater in its moral effects and cor rupting tendencies than all other human evils put together it is not only a moral and political evil within itself one intrin sically so of the darkest and most damn ing character but in all its bearings and effects calculated to produce the most fa tal effects on both the moral and the po litical institutions of our country it is an evil that has does now and will in all time to come while it exists involve in it , as well in its present position as in its fu i ture operations crime fraud theft < robbery and murder for the : truth of what i say as to its present ef j fects upon the institutions of the country i have only to refer you to a view of ! the slave states in our union and a com parison between the relative condition of the improvements of them and the v^e ' states you see the free states happy and flourishing to the admiration and as , tonishment of all who see them public improvements and private prosperity are t swift and ahead in the race while on the i other hand poverty lean and hungry ster t ility&ndsquallid wretched ness soera to cov < erthe face ofthe land in many parts where i slave institution have a residence cross | the line that separates the free from the j slave states or stand upon it and look * across the former you will see compara j tively all life and happiness and prosper ity both public and private : but turn your ' eyes upon the latter and survey it ; every thing material except a few of the weal ( thy proprietors bearing the impress of j poverty and dilapidation ; all look as if , pestilence and famine had been making their sad innovation the anger of god and vengeance of heaven iieem to rest upon : every thing upon which you cast your eyes j every prospect seems to be withered and wilted by the frown and disapprobation of avenging justice and violated humanity ~ in short almost every institution public and private seems to be sickening and 1 dying from the corrupting and corroding effects of slavery but tiie curse ' be ox the heads of those who ; sustain such an institution \ enthusiasm \ mr l tells the following good story ' one sunny afternoon a few days since he was riding through one of our northern i counties and had just entered an extend ed tract of forest when faint and distant ! cries broke upon his ear a little startled ' to hear such noises amid such solitude he urged his horse into a brisk trot louder and louder waxed the cries and faster \ trotted the horse a thousand stories of i panthers and catamounts and stray bears i floated through the excited mind of l as he proceeded in the direction whence the sounds emanated ; but as he advanced he began to have misgivings that the vocifer ations rising and falling at regular inter vals had more of triumph than fear in them he soon made a little opening in the forest when the mystery of the disturbance was fully explained in the midst ofthe clear ing stocd a man with no garment to boast of but his inexpressible above him rose a moderate sized hickory pole from the top of which floated a white flag display ing in inky characters the names of polk and dallas to the inhabitants of the wil derness his hand held a well worn hat which circled vigorously about his head as with profound earnestness and stento rian lungs he shouted hurra ! xo other human being met the eyes of l " halloo said l when he had arrived within speaking distance hurra hurra hurra !" was the only ' response as thc old hat revolved about the bare poll of the excited politician " halloo !" repeated l the man ceas ' ed for a moment ! " you seem to be quite alone here re ' marked l by way of introduction " why yes said the man as he wiped from his face the perspiration which his vigorous performances had made rather profuse ; it does seem a little lonesome like to them as aint used to it i hav'nt got many neighbors in these parts and as t had nt got much to do this afternoon and bein its saturday i thought l*d cut this ere saplin and hist it for polk and dallas i'm not the chap as is afeer'd to let folks know who i'm for â€” not i 1 would like to ha voted for matty 1 swan ; but any how being as that can't be done no how i'm not the chap to bite my own nose off out o'spite ; i go the reg'lar ticket any how â€” so here goes for polk and dallas â€” now altogether â€” hurra ! !" â€” and as l rode off ruminating on this man ofthe woods thus " going it alone " with a vengeance the last sounds as he re-entered the forest were the vigorous cheers of the old fellow apparently unimpaired by his previous ef forts and the last glance showed the old ' hat whirling about in its orbit with a de termination that seemed to defy opposition . j albany argus j â– " who is that lovely girl !" exclaimed the ' witty lord norhurv in company with his friend ' counsellor grant miss class replied the i barrister glass !" reiterated the facetious â€¢ | judge i should often be intoxicated could i , | place euch a glass to my lips !'' what does it mean !â€” are these omens ? a sad mishap betel a portion ot our locofo co triends of this place on saturday and yester day a good locofoco living opposite mr chariton a whig blacksmith who raised a noble ash pole a lew days sinc determined to manifest his devotion to the hero ol a tennes i see flight and the descendant ofa mecklenburg ' protectionist by annexing to old hickory a scion of the polk stalk and running up both wilh the lone star far above the haunting whis stream er with its stars and stripes ot oar own beloved union thc pole designed tor elevation was not a very tall one but all day saturday was spent in fruitless efforts to give it a perpendic ular night put an end to operations mon day morning daw d auspiciously once more the pokes came to the rescue slowlv progress ed the progressive at length the word was given : now then my hearties slowly and solemnly ascended old and young hickorv the crisis was at hand the difficulty was al most over aad the territicd squad began to breathe at this juncture the ominous signal of dissolution was heard and in an instant ihe polk staik came thundering to the ground oij hickory himself having given out just below annexation the solid massive pole had ac tually been simjered at a poi-*.t where danger was not dreamed of in its fall the top struck the ash pole opposite and broke off leaving the ash proudly erect unscathed and unshorn ot its lair proportions had its course not been changed aud its force measurably broken by falling agaii.sts the whig pole everal persons must have beeu dangerou.ly il not fatally in jured their escape as it was seemed almost â€¢ miraculous at the foot ot the ash prostrate and forlorn lay \ ouug hickory saying as plain ly as hickory ever said â€” those wlw trade on borrowed capital ought to break !" what a theme tor the pen of some omen loving amos ! how full of dark and mysterious import the event from beginning to end ! just imagine how amos would gloat over and dilate on each minute particularot this attempt at pole raisin columbus ohio journal something for reflection from the new york commercial advertiser sept 7 the chances of a war the possibility if not probability of a war between france and england occupies tlie se rious attention of reflecting men on both sides ofthe atlantic various causes are spoken of as combining to create the difficulty ot an ami cable arrangement between the two powers the most obvious among which is the animosity against england prevailing among the french people stimulated at least if not created by i lhe leaders ol the opposition to the guizot ministry who used it as a lever with which to force that statesman out ol louts philippe's cabinet another less upon the surface and a good deal more questionable is said to be the idea of the three great continental monarch the despots of prussia austria and russia ihat t it would be better to have a strode with france now while " tlie napoleon of peace is living than a fearful democratic explosion at his death they are supposed to in of opinion that the military energies and aspirations of france might be so ar exhausted by a present war ol two or three years as to enable king louis philippe before his death to establish his pacific policy and his dynasty on a stame foundation which would give assurance of that continued tranquility under his successor which is now looked upon as so much at hazard but our purpose now is not to enquire curi ousiv into the probabilities of war and the cau ses irom which it may arise but to consider the interests ot or own c untry in the matter and especially in connexion with two very important political questions involved in the presidential canvass for w teh we are all preparing a general european war or even a war be tween england and fiance alone would be ad vantageous to this country provided we took good rare not to be entangled in it it is to be presumed that the belligerents would direct their eftorts mainly to the destruction each of the other's commerce cruisers and privateers would swoop upon the merchant ships of franco and england and this would throw tiie carrying trade of both or at least a very considerable portion of it into our hands the agriculture and manufactures of both nations would suffi r reduction â€” necessarily followed by a greatly increased consumption of our agricultural pro ducts and the opening of new market to our manufactures such an impulse would he giv ; en to our industry in every department ot its exercise as we have not known for many y-ars â€” exceeding even that imparted to it by the tariff ol 1842 now the question is shall we with such a prospect belbre us commit the national suicide of breaking down our manufactures at the mo ment when they are rapidly advancing to com plete and successful establishment and when thc rich rewards they are destined to jrive us are almost within our grasp ! shall we throw away the profitable results of all that we have been laboring and striving tor so many years ! shall we unsettle the policy that has been so wisely adhered to and the advantages of which are be_iinnin_i to pour in upon us in golden tri butes ? if it is the part of sag.aci his thinking patriotic men to do all this an easy way to ac complish it is provided in the election ofthe free trader james k polk who has sworn eternal opposition to a protective tariff but again : â€” to reap the advantages that eould not fail to present themselves for us in a european war we must keep entirely alÂ«k>f from it restricting ourselves w ith the most iigid cau tion to the defence of our own neutral ri_:h our policy and our glory must be to remain at peace with all however much they may rend and tear each other if we would looÂ«e all the 2ood that wc mi_rht derive from a contest at the other side of the atlantic we have only to take part in it â€” only to go to war ourselves and for this too we have a fine opportunity have onlv to set about the immediate annexa tion of texas without regard to the rights ot mexico and the justice of ber protestations â€” ' and again to effect this we have only to elect m â€” _^^______â€” â€” _â€” â€”^ that same mr james k polk to the presiden cy free trade and texas are hia principle ; and if wc desire to achieve all the mischief for our country that war and obstructed industry can bring we have but to place hira where he eau bring his principles into active operation from thc richmond compiler the compromise act it is not a little curious to see certain editors and politicians who after the pas sage of the compromise act denied that there was any thing solemn and binding in it and exerted themselves e.ach year to have it violated now declaiming vocife rously against the want of good faith ex hibited tn the p.assagc of the tariff act of 42 formerly they said it was ridiculous to assume that the act of one legislature could be binding upon a succeeding legi slature â€” and declared the compromise act to be a gross imposition upon the south which should be immediately repealed and succeeded by one more just now they speak of the abandonment of the compromise act as mo-t iniquitous and treacherous ! what we have already published has vindicated mr clay from the aspersions of his enemies with regard to the matter he knew the act would give time to the manufacturing interests and avoid the ut ter ruin a sudden abandonment of the protective policy would occasion he hoped that before the horizontal scale of 20 per cent was reached or by that time the eyes of the people would be opened and the failure of the 20 per cent tariff to afford enough revenue and promote the general prosperiiy realized hi hopes and brought about exactly what his anticipa tions ofthe public necessity required viz a return to a discriminating protective taritl how did the party in power respect the compromise ' the baltimore american says : *; the spirit of the compromise act was disregarded when the passage ot mr clay's land bill was defeated for it was con templated by the act and so expressed that the revenues necessary for an eco nomical administration of thegovernmeni should be raised from impost duties this wns the understanding of both sides when thc compromise was adopted general jackson had himself recommended that theproceedsofthe public land sales should no longer form a part of the revenues of the general government and be suggest ed to congress the duty of providing some fair and equable system of distribution if he afterwards suppressed the land bill b cause mr clay had made it a measure of bis own the facts of the case as to the general understanding in congress tire not thereby altered " another instance of disregard to the provisions and intent of the compromise is to be noted in mr van linen's neglect to increase the rates of duties when it be came apparent tbat an increase xvas ne cessary in order to supply revenue to the treasury " rather than do thi mr van buren had recourse to issues of treasury notes after having used large sums of surplus means which happened to beat that time available if the proceeds of the public land sales bad been enjoyed by tbe states tbe necessity of supplying revenues by duties would have prevented the fall of tariff from reaching that ruinous stand ard which was so productive of embarrass ment and injury to the country south carolina politics the editor of the charleston patriot comment ing upon tbe disunion movements there and mr calhoun's disapproval of them took occasion say that mr calhoun was the leader of the party and the " ex ponent of their principles . ' and that his voice should be controling thereupon a writer in the charleston mercury takes lire and says : " tu despicable eentiment ia diagract-id to sn onn da - to : ie a ( ai n s.r a freeman h ia Â« only of a serf ; aam ti ;. . â€¢ i in scribed â€” 'â€¢ 1 thrall of cedric the s , i â€¢:!.' " the feeling of thc rhett faction may be judged by this reply the friends of mr calhoun no doubt reciprocate thc feeling general jackson it is humiliating to the pride of an american to see a brave old chieftain who has done his country service and received from that a ntry the highest reward in her gift now when he has retired irom public life â€” intirm and totter in upon the verge of the grave â€” dragged from this retirement and made the poppet of unprin cipled partizan leaders to effect their unhallow ed purposes gen jackson writing letters to the legislature ol north carolina dictating who ! thev should elect as their senator ! general jackson dictating to thc baltimore convention : general jackson writinc a letter to louisiana opsin the eve of an election to influence that election general jackson certiÂ«rÂ«ag to ala bam that jamea k pott ia a/r " ' **Â»â– Â« texas " man and to p,ti v^n.yhat he u the advocate of a high r^t-me an t and finally general jackson rtionng that i z-.fc.el polk was not a tour ! * ell may the old man exclaim a from mv fnend raleigh register : 1 - \- i that james k polk ia nal a cover j '] power r.f iÂ«__g_-Â»_rfioÂ»."--car_yle tells a to rt of a ghost which haunted a bouse in scotland jccupied by credulous people but h.ch on , m testation proved to be a rusty old meat jack next door which in it creaking isfik lutions gave rtht-e j .â– â– â– â€¢â– Â«Â»Â» * ! ation twisted into h nce i w " n â€¢â– Â« â– ! now i'm mee-serable ! 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ter ms of the watchman two dollars in advance and two dollars and fifty cents nt the end t'l the year no subscription received for a less tame than one year unless paid for in advance no subscription discontinued but at the option ot tlie ;-â€¢> tors until all arrearages are paid terms of advertising i ... d tllar per square for the first insertion and twenty fori ach continuance a and court orders will be charged j pc her than the above rates . tion of 33 i per cent will be maue to t.iose . . idvertisc by the year ., - . . , , vi advertise nts will he continued mtil forbid and j for acconlingly.unless ordered for a certain num ber of times _ , i ....,.._ addressed to the editors must come post , aid i ' qsnre atti ntion the law of kindness a volume entitled illustrations ofthe law of kindness by thc kev 7 w montgomery has been published at alba ny in the state of new york it is as a literary work of little pretension but it presents in one focus a very considerable number of anecdotes exemplifying the su periority ofthe benevolent over the coer cive and severe principle as a means of effecting good vr,tl amongst our fellow en atures ; and such reasoning as the book contains is animated by all the earnest ness of an amiable and trusting nature the author classes his facts into chapters one of the first of which presents scriptur al instances such as that of david's con duct towards saul in the cave another presents a brief account of the benevolent proceedings of howard oberlin fenelon c.,showing how the law of kindness traded in their lives to the most brilliant result in a chapter on lie disarming force of kindness we have a story that never can ] io often told it is well known that quakers or friends have adopted the non-resistance principle or the law over come evil with good the founder of philadelphia william penn was com pletely armed with the spirit of this prin ciple when he visited this country he came without cannon or sword and with ; a determination to meet the indians wilh truth and kindness lie bought their j land and paid them he made a treaty ihem and observed it : and he always treated them as men as a specimen of the manner in which he met the indians thv tollowing instance is very striking â€” ihere were some fertile and excellent lands which in 10 b penn ascertained were excluded irom the first purchase and as he was very desirous of obtaining j them he made the proposal to lhe indians that lie woidd buy those lands if they were willing they returned for answer that they had no desire to sell the spot where their lather's bones were laid but o please iheir father onas as they nam ed penn they said that he should have some of the lands this being decided they concluded the bargain that penn might have as much land as a youngman could travel round in one day beginning at the great cosquanco now kensington in ii i ding at the great river kallapingo j now bristol ; and as an equivalent ihey â– 1 1 ceive a certain amount of eng | li-n â€¢- a though this plan ofmeasur lii land was of their own selection j yet they were greatly dissatisfied with it after it had been tried ; for the your " englishman chosen to walk off thc trad of land walked so i'ast and far as greatly to astonish and mortify them the gov ernor observed this dissatisfaction and asked thc cause " the walker cheated is said the indians ' ah how can it be said penn did you not ohoose yourselves tohave the land measured in this way .'" true replied the indians but white bro ther make a big walk some of penn's commisioncrs waxing warm said the bar gain was i fair one and insisted that the indians ought to abide by it and if not should be compelled to il ' compelled !* exclaimed penn ; ' how can you compel them without bloodshed don't you sec this looks to murder ?' then turning will abenignanl smile to the indians he said well brothers if you have given us too much lor the goods lirst agreed on how much more will satisfy you v this pro posal gratified them ; and ihey mentioned the quantity of cloth and the number of fish-hooks with which they would be sat isfied these were cheerfully given and he indians shaking hands with penn went away smiling alter they were gone the governor looking round on his friends ex claimed ' ( ) how sweet and cheap a thing is charitj ! some of you spoke just now fll compelling these poor creatures tostick to their bargain that is in plain english tolighl and kill them aud all about a lit wpit ce of it ml 7 " for this kind conduct manifested in ; ill his actions to ihe indians he was no bly rewarded the untamed savage of the forest became the warm iriend of the whitc si ranger towards penn and his fol lowers they buried the war-hatchet and n r evinced the strongest respect for km and when the colony of pennsyl vania was pressed for provisions and none cÂ°uld 1 obtained from other settlements hi(-!i search arose from the increas ln number of inhabitants having no time l taise the necessary l'ood the indians c'll','i'luiiy came forward and assisted the polony by the fruits of their labors in hunt s this kindness they practised with p^asure because they considered it an to their good father onas j111 his friends and though penn has ! a dead yel he is not forgotten by men ior many ofthe indians pos s a knowledge of his peaceable dispo sition and speak of him with a toneÂ»and pellng verydift'erenl from what they man ksi when speaking of those whites who f;i with words of treachery on theirlips jkpgs of fire-water in their hands in their actions i ihe anecdote comes before us with par r wee at the present moment when j ew /-' land is tottering as a settlement â€¢ i's-nce of the english following the carolina watchman bruner & james ) ' > " keep a check upon all your editors 4 proprietors \ is safe '__ i $ m series rulers do this and liberty < t_^Â«Â«_v_n geril harrison ( xl m ber 81 of volume i ===== salisbury n c september 21 1844 = j a different principle with the natives â€” how strange does it sound to hear men j talking with ridicule of philanthropic pol i icy as something unfitted for human na ' turc when lhe fact is glaring that it is the contrary policy that does not succeed ; its invariahlc consequences heing lhe de | struction and obstruction of all that i.s i good the true visionaries in this case i are those who dream that a large barba | rian force is to be made agreeable in one's neighborhood by raising in it the spirit of ; blind revenge the true practical man j is he who acts justly and kindly by his un ! tutored neighbors expecting they will : thereby be kept on friendly terms with i him in a chapter on insanity thc effect of the mild system of treatment now prac tised in comparison with thc former cru el methods is illustrated by numerous ex i amples collected from different sources the next action displays thc effect of kind ness as an element in the means of refor ming criminals we pass from these as projects that have already been treated in our paper and come to an anecdote in which the efficacy of the gentler princi ple in circumsiances where the other could not have availed is powerfully evinced it appeared originally in de l'emartine's translation of ' a residence among the arabs of the greal desert ' in the tribe cf nedge there was a mare of great re putation for beauty and swiftness which a member of another tribe named dahcr ' vehemently desired to possess having failed to obtain her by offering all he was worth he proceeded to effect his object by stratagem he disguised himself like a lame beggar and waited by the side ofa road knowing that nabee the owner of thc mare would soon pass as soon as nabee appeared daher cried in a feeble voice 1 am a poor stranger for three days i have been unable to stir from this lo get food ; help nit and god will reward you nabee offered to carry him home ; but daher said ' i am not able to raise ; i have not strength nabee then gener ; ously dismounted brought his mare near and helped the beggar to mount her the moment he was mounted daher touched her with his heel and started saying ' it is i daher who have got her and am carrying her oil nabee called upon him to sto which daher did nabee then said ' thou hast my mare ; since it plea ses god 1 wish thee success but i eon jure thee tell no one how thou hast obtain ed her ' why not v said daher Â« be cause seme one really ill might remain without aid you would be the cause why no one would perform an act of charity more from the fear of being duped as 1 have been this discriminating kind ness subdued daher he immediately dis mounted and returned the mare to nabee | and when they parted they parted sworn j friends here mr montgomery remarks let i signal act of revenge a cold iin ! feeling instance of retaliation be known in our communities and it excites horror and even the deepest tones of indignation on the contrary let a broad act of bene volence a noble and dignified instance of the forgiveness of enemies be exhibit ed and it is at once admired and com mended in the warmest terms 8o true j it is that the human heart dislikes the ! principle hate the enemies and approves i the practice ofthe law " love your ene mics nothing we think could more power ' fully enforce this doctrine than the effect of such anecdotes as the following which we fully believe could not be read to the i most debased ofour species without rais ! ' ing such emotions as to form an ample j proof of the superiority of generous over i : revengeful feelings the brothers cher j ible ofthe novelist are as is well known j scarcely overcharged portraits of two real j english merchants one of whom wc re | j gret to know is no more of these men ! the following story was originally told in ! a manchester paper " the elder brother ! of this house of merchant princes amply revenged himself upon a libeller who had , made himself merry with the peculiarities of the amiable fraternity this man pub lished u pamphlet in which one of the brothers i was designated as billy j button and represented as talking large ly of their foreign trade having travel lers wli,o regularly visited chowbent bul lock smithly and other foreign parts â€” some " kind friend had told w of this pamphlet and y had said that the man would live to repent of its publication â€” this saying was kindly conveyed to the libeller who said that he should take care never to be in their debt but the man of business does not always know who shall be his creditor the author of the pamphlet became bankrupt and the bro thers held an acceptance of his which had been endorsed by the drawer who had al so become bankrupt the wantonly-li belled men had thus become creditors of the libeller they now had it in their * a most respecta'ok xew zealand settler thus writes ! to a iriend in edinburgh i:i a letter which we have seen ; " the natives are a fine intelligent race and are rapid ly becoming civilized wars have almost ceased and cannibalism is becomining very rare and is only prac tised by two tribes the late unfortunate massacre of captain wakefield and six gentlemen of which you may have heard entirely originated in an unjust aggression on the natives and their retaliation ; and hornhle as it ' wns the sufferers only met with their deserts we pre sume it is not here meant that captain wakefield or the : other sufferers were specially guilty but that the conduct ' of the english was generally speaking such ns to make | the loss on that side a natural coneequence ot their error power to make him repent of his audaci ty he could not obtain his certificate without their signature and without it he could not enter into business again he had obtained the number of signatures re quired by the bankrupt laws except one " it seemed folly to hope that the firm of brothers would supply the deficiency what ! they who had cruelly been made the laughing-stock of thc public forget the wrong and favor the wrong-doer ! he despaired ; but the claims of a wife and children forced him at least to make the application humbled by misery he pre sented himself at the counting room ofthe wronged w was there alone and his first words to the delinquent were ' shut the door sir !' slernly uttered the door was shut and the libeller stood trembling before the libelled he told his tale and produced his certificate which was in stantly clutched by the injured merchant ' you wrote a pamphet against us once exclaimed w this supplicant expected to sec his parchment thrown into the fire ; but this was not its destination w took a pen and writing something on the doc ument handed it back to thc bankrupt â€” he poor wretch expected to see there " rogue scroundrel libeller inscribed ; but there was in fair round characters the signature of the firm ! " we make it a j rule said w " never to refuse signing the certificate of an honest tradesman ' and we have never heard that you were anything else the tear started into the j poor man's eye " ah said w " my saying was true i i said you would live to repent writing j that pamphlet i did not mean it as a â– threat ; i only meant that some day you j would know us better and would repent you had tried to injure us i see you re pent it now " i do i do said the grate ful man " well well my dear leilow j said w " you know us now how do ; you get on .' what are you going to do ?" j the poor man stated that he had friends j who could assist him when his certificate \ was obtained " but how are you oft in \ the meantime and the answer was j that having given up every thing to his creditors he had been compelled to stint his family of even the common necessa j lies that he might be enabled to pay the \ cost ofhis certificate " my dear fellow , said w this will never do â€” your fami 1 ly must not suffer be kind enough to j take i his ten pound note to your wife from j me there there my dear fellow â€” nay don't cry â€” it will be all well with you yet , keep up your spirits set to work like a | man and you will raise your head yet the overpowered man endeavored in vain to express his thanks â€” the swelling in his throat forbade words ; he put his handker chief to his face and went out of the door crying like a child " i am almost convinced says the au thor " that there never yet was an in stance in which kindness has been fairly exercised but that it has subdued tbe en mity opposed to it its first effort may not succeed any more than one shower of rain can reclaim the burning desert but let it repeatedly shed the dew of its holy influence upon the revengeful soul and it will soon become beautiful with every j lower of tenderness let any person put thc question to his soul whether under any circumstances he can deliberately re sist continued kindness anda voice of affection will answer that good is omnip otent in overcoming evil if the angry and revengeful person would only govern his passions and light the lamp of affec tion in his heart that it might stream out in his features and actions he would soon discover a wide difference in his commu nion without with the world the gentle would no longer avoid him ; friends would not approach him with a frown ; the weak would no longer meet him with fear ; he would find that his kindness won all by its kindness won all by its smile giving them confidence and securing their friend ship dr duncan of ohio and his brother democrats of the south thc democrats have circulated through this county and elsewhere in the state far and wide a speech delivered by one duncan a sort of notorious character and a representative from ohio his speech contains several pictures and is so obscene and abusive that many democrats we learn when it is thrust upon them spurn it from them with disgust now in order that the people of this county may know what are the true feelings and opinions of this duncan in regard to the south and its institutions let them read the follow in0 extract from a letter of his dated " montgomery hamilton county ohio sept 15 1838 and addressed to james ludlow and eighteen others let it be read and let the reader form his own opin ion of the man from whose abuse of the whigs the voters of this county are asked to form an opinion of that party let our democratic friends especially those who have aided in circulating the speech re ferred lo put on their spectacles and read the denunciations heaped upon them and upon slaveholders in general by this great political favorite of theirs danville re porter " there is says dr duncan no mar living who is more deadly hostile to slave â€¢ ry than i am my feelings my education the circumstances that have surrounded me through life together with my princi ples of what i believe to constitute the natu ral political rights of man all conspire to make me ablwr it as one of the greatest evils that exists on the face of the earth : yes greater in its moral effects and cor rupting tendencies than all other human evils put together it is not only a moral and political evil within itself one intrin sically so of the darkest and most damn ing character but in all its bearings and effects calculated to produce the most fa tal effects on both the moral and the po litical institutions of our country it is an evil that has does now and will in all time to come while it exists involve in it , as well in its present position as in its fu i ture operations crime fraud theft < robbery and murder for the : truth of what i say as to its present ef j fects upon the institutions of the country i have only to refer you to a view of ! the slave states in our union and a com parison between the relative condition of the improvements of them and the v^e ' states you see the free states happy and flourishing to the admiration and as , tonishment of all who see them public improvements and private prosperity are t swift and ahead in the race while on the i other hand poverty lean and hungry ster t ility&ndsquallid wretched ness soera to cov < erthe face ofthe land in many parts where i slave institution have a residence cross | the line that separates the free from the j slave states or stand upon it and look * across the former you will see compara j tively all life and happiness and prosper ity both public and private : but turn your ' eyes upon the latter and survey it ; every thing material except a few of the weal ( thy proprietors bearing the impress of j poverty and dilapidation ; all look as if , pestilence and famine had been making their sad innovation the anger of god and vengeance of heaven iieem to rest upon : every thing upon which you cast your eyes j every prospect seems to be withered and wilted by the frown and disapprobation of avenging justice and violated humanity ~ in short almost every institution public and private seems to be sickening and 1 dying from the corrupting and corroding effects of slavery but tiie curse ' be ox the heads of those who ; sustain such an institution \ enthusiasm \ mr l tells the following good story ' one sunny afternoon a few days since he was riding through one of our northern i counties and had just entered an extend ed tract of forest when faint and distant ! cries broke upon his ear a little startled ' to hear such noises amid such solitude he urged his horse into a brisk trot louder and louder waxed the cries and faster \ trotted the horse a thousand stories of i panthers and catamounts and stray bears i floated through the excited mind of l as he proceeded in the direction whence the sounds emanated ; but as he advanced he began to have misgivings that the vocifer ations rising and falling at regular inter vals had more of triumph than fear in them he soon made a little opening in the forest when the mystery of the disturbance was fully explained in the midst ofthe clear ing stocd a man with no garment to boast of but his inexpressible above him rose a moderate sized hickory pole from the top of which floated a white flag display ing in inky characters the names of polk and dallas to the inhabitants of the wil derness his hand held a well worn hat which circled vigorously about his head as with profound earnestness and stento rian lungs he shouted hurra ! xo other human being met the eyes of l " halloo said l when he had arrived within speaking distance hurra hurra hurra !" was the only ' response as thc old hat revolved about the bare poll of the excited politician " halloo !" repeated l the man ceas ' ed for a moment ! " you seem to be quite alone here re ' marked l by way of introduction " why yes said the man as he wiped from his face the perspiration which his vigorous performances had made rather profuse ; it does seem a little lonesome like to them as aint used to it i hav'nt got many neighbors in these parts and as t had nt got much to do this afternoon and bein its saturday i thought l*d cut this ere saplin and hist it for polk and dallas i'm not the chap as is afeer'd to let folks know who i'm for â€” not i 1 would like to ha voted for matty 1 swan ; but any how being as that can't be done no how i'm not the chap to bite my own nose off out o'spite ; i go the reg'lar ticket any how â€” so here goes for polk and dallas â€” now altogether â€” hurra ! !" â€” and as l rode off ruminating on this man ofthe woods thus " going it alone " with a vengeance the last sounds as he re-entered the forest were the vigorous cheers of the old fellow apparently unimpaired by his previous ef forts and the last glance showed the old ' hat whirling about in its orbit with a de termination that seemed to defy opposition . j albany argus j â– " who is that lovely girl !" exclaimed the ' witty lord norhurv in company with his friend ' counsellor grant miss class replied the i barrister glass !" reiterated the facetious â€¢ | judge i should often be intoxicated could i , | place euch a glass to my lips !'' what does it mean !â€” are these omens ? a sad mishap betel a portion ot our locofo co triends of this place on saturday and yester day a good locofoco living opposite mr chariton a whig blacksmith who raised a noble ash pole a lew days sinc determined to manifest his devotion to the hero ol a tennes i see flight and the descendant ofa mecklenburg ' protectionist by annexing to old hickory a scion of the polk stalk and running up both wilh the lone star far above the haunting whis stream er with its stars and stripes ot oar own beloved union thc pole designed tor elevation was not a very tall one but all day saturday was spent in fruitless efforts to give it a perpendic ular night put an end to operations mon day morning daw d auspiciously once more the pokes came to the rescue slowlv progress ed the progressive at length the word was given : now then my hearties slowly and solemnly ascended old and young hickorv the crisis was at hand the difficulty was al most over aad the territicd squad began to breathe at this juncture the ominous signal of dissolution was heard and in an instant ihe polk staik came thundering to the ground oij hickory himself having given out just below annexation the solid massive pole had ac tually been simjered at a poi-*.t where danger was not dreamed of in its fall the top struck the ash pole opposite and broke off leaving the ash proudly erect unscathed and unshorn ot its lair proportions had its course not been changed aud its force measurably broken by falling agaii.sts the whig pole everal persons must have beeu dangerou.ly il not fatally in jured their escape as it was seemed almost â€¢ miraculous at the foot ot the ash prostrate and forlorn lay \ ouug hickory saying as plain ly as hickory ever said â€” those wlw trade on borrowed capital ought to break !" what a theme tor the pen of some omen loving amos ! how full of dark and mysterious import the event from beginning to end ! just imagine how amos would gloat over and dilate on each minute particularot this attempt at pole raisin columbus ohio journal something for reflection from the new york commercial advertiser sept 7 the chances of a war the possibility if not probability of a war between france and england occupies tlie se rious attention of reflecting men on both sides ofthe atlantic various causes are spoken of as combining to create the difficulty ot an ami cable arrangement between the two powers the most obvious among which is the animosity against england prevailing among the french people stimulated at least if not created by i lhe leaders ol the opposition to the guizot ministry who used it as a lever with which to force that statesman out ol louts philippe's cabinet another less upon the surface and a good deal more questionable is said to be the idea of the three great continental monarch the despots of prussia austria and russia ihat t it would be better to have a strode with france now while " tlie napoleon of peace is living than a fearful democratic explosion at his death they are supposed to in of opinion that the military energies and aspirations of france might be so ar exhausted by a present war ol two or three years as to enable king louis philippe before his death to establish his pacific policy and his dynasty on a stame foundation which would give assurance of that continued tranquility under his successor which is now looked upon as so much at hazard but our purpose now is not to enquire curi ousiv into the probabilities of war and the cau ses irom which it may arise but to consider the interests ot or own c untry in the matter and especially in connexion with two very important political questions involved in the presidential canvass for w teh we are all preparing a general european war or even a war be tween england and fiance alone would be ad vantageous to this country provided we took good rare not to be entangled in it it is to be presumed that the belligerents would direct their eftorts mainly to the destruction each of the other's commerce cruisers and privateers would swoop upon the merchant ships of franco and england and this would throw tiie carrying trade of both or at least a very considerable portion of it into our hands the agriculture and manufactures of both nations would suffi r reduction â€” necessarily followed by a greatly increased consumption of our agricultural pro ducts and the opening of new market to our manufactures such an impulse would he giv ; en to our industry in every department ot its exercise as we have not known for many y-ars â€” exceeding even that imparted to it by the tariff ol 1842 now the question is shall we with such a prospect belbre us commit the national suicide of breaking down our manufactures at the mo ment when they are rapidly advancing to com plete and successful establishment and when thc rich rewards they are destined to jrive us are almost within our grasp ! shall we throw away the profitable results of all that we have been laboring and striving tor so many years ! shall we unsettle the policy that has been so wisely adhered to and the advantages of which are be_iinnin_i to pour in upon us in golden tri butes ? if it is the part of sag.aci his thinking patriotic men to do all this an easy way to ac complish it is provided in the election ofthe free trader james k polk who has sworn eternal opposition to a protective tariff but again : â€” to reap the advantages that eould not fail to present themselves for us in a european war we must keep entirely alÂ«k>f from it restricting ourselves w ith the most iigid cau tion to the defence of our own neutral ri_:h our policy and our glory must be to remain at peace with all however much they may rend and tear each other if we would looÂ«e all the 2ood that wc mi_rht derive from a contest at the other side of the atlantic we have only to take part in it â€” only to go to war ourselves and for this too we have a fine opportunity have onlv to set about the immediate annexa tion of texas without regard to the rights ot mexico and the justice of ber protestations â€” ' and again to effect this we have only to elect m â€” _^^______â€” â€” _â€” â€”^ that same mr james k polk to the presiden cy free trade and texas are hia principle ; and if wc desire to achieve all the mischief for our country that war and obstructed industry can bring we have but to place hira where he eau bring his principles into active operation from thc richmond compiler the compromise act it is not a little curious to see certain editors and politicians who after the pas sage of the compromise act denied that there was any thing solemn and binding in it and exerted themselves e.ach year to have it violated now declaiming vocife rously against the want of good faith ex hibited tn the p.assagc of the tariff act of 42 formerly they said it was ridiculous to assume that the act of one legislature could be binding upon a succeeding legi slature â€” and declared the compromise act to be a gross imposition upon the south which should be immediately repealed and succeeded by one more just now they speak of the abandonment of the compromise act as mo-t iniquitous and treacherous ! what we have already published has vindicated mr clay from the aspersions of his enemies with regard to the matter he knew the act would give time to the manufacturing interests and avoid the ut ter ruin a sudden abandonment of the protective policy would occasion he hoped that before the horizontal scale of 20 per cent was reached or by that time the eyes of the people would be opened and the failure of the 20 per cent tariff to afford enough revenue and promote the general prosperiiy realized hi hopes and brought about exactly what his anticipa tions ofthe public necessity required viz a return to a discriminating protective taritl how did the party in power respect the compromise ' the baltimore american says : *; the spirit of the compromise act was disregarded when the passage ot mr clay's land bill was defeated for it was con templated by the act and so expressed that the revenues necessary for an eco nomical administration of thegovernmeni should be raised from impost duties this wns the understanding of both sides when thc compromise was adopted general jackson had himself recommended that theproceedsofthe public land sales should no longer form a part of the revenues of the general government and be suggest ed to congress the duty of providing some fair and equable system of distribution if he afterwards suppressed the land bill b cause mr clay had made it a measure of bis own the facts of the case as to the general understanding in congress tire not thereby altered " another instance of disregard to the provisions and intent of the compromise is to be noted in mr van linen's neglect to increase the rates of duties when it be came apparent tbat an increase xvas ne cessary in order to supply revenue to the treasury " rather than do thi mr van buren had recourse to issues of treasury notes after having used large sums of surplus means which happened to beat that time available if the proceeds of the public land sales bad been enjoyed by tbe states tbe necessity of supplying revenues by duties would have prevented the fall of tariff from reaching that ruinous stand ard which was so productive of embarrass ment and injury to the country south carolina politics the editor of the charleston patriot comment ing upon tbe disunion movements there and mr calhoun's disapproval of them took occasion say that mr calhoun was the leader of the party and the " ex ponent of their principles . ' and that his voice should be controling thereupon a writer in the charleston mercury takes lire and says : " tu despicable eentiment ia diagract-id to sn onn da - to : ie a ( ai n s.r a freeman h ia Â« only of a serf ; aam ti ;. . â€¢ i in scribed â€” 'â€¢ 1 thrall of cedric the s , i â€¢:!.' " the feeling of thc rhett faction may be judged by this reply the friends of mr calhoun no doubt reciprocate thc feeling general jackson it is humiliating to the pride of an american to see a brave old chieftain who has done his country service and received from that a ntry the highest reward in her gift now when he has retired irom public life â€” intirm and totter in upon the verge of the grave â€” dragged from this retirement and made the poppet of unprin cipled partizan leaders to effect their unhallow ed purposes gen jackson writing letters to the legislature ol north carolina dictating who ! thev should elect as their senator ! general jackson dictating to thc baltimore convention : general jackson writinc a letter to louisiana opsin the eve of an election to influence that election general jackson certiÂ«rÂ«ag to ala bam that jamea k pott ia a/r " ' **Â»â– Â« texas " man and to p,ti v^n.yhat he u the advocate of a high r^t-me an t and finally general jackson rtionng that i z-.fc.el polk was not a tour ! * ell may the old man exclaim a from mv fnend raleigh register : 1 - \- i that james k polk ia nal a cover j '] power r.f iÂ«__g_-Â»_rfioÂ»."--car_yle tells a to rt of a ghost which haunted a bouse in scotland jccupied by credulous people but h.ch on , m testation proved to be a rusty old meat jack next door which in it creaking isfik lutions gave rtht-e j .â– â– â– â€¢â– Â«Â»Â» * ! ation twisted into h nce i w " n â€¢â– Â« â– ! now i'm mee-serable ! 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